# The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968, Regulation 75: Errors of fact or substance


(1) Where it appears or is represented to a superintendent registrar or a registrar that there is an error of fact or substance in a completed entry in a register of births, still-births or deaths in his custody, not being an entry made in pursuance of a coroner's certificate after inquest, he shall send a report to the Registrar General about the alleged error, giving such information as the Registrar General may require, together with a copy of the entry, and shall comply with any particular instruction which the Registrar General may give for the purpose of verifying the facts of the case and ascertaining whether there are available two persons qualified to make a statutory declaration required by section 29(3) of the Act (which relates to the correction of errors in registers).
(2) On being informed by the Registrar General that the alleged error may be corrected on production of a statutory declaration made by the two persons aforesaid in such terms as satisfy the requirements of the said section 29(3), the superintendent registrar or the registrar, as the case may be, shall on production to him of the statutory declaration correct the error in the following manner—
(a) he shall underline the erroneous matter in the entry; and
(b) he shall, unless otherwise directed by the Registrar General, write in the margin of the entry a note in the following form—
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and he shall enter the particulars of the correction and of the declarants and complete and sign the note in the places provided.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/2049/regulation/75 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-75
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